apt can't do upgrades?

OK, we've been having a situation here on alpha where apt wants to
remove about three dozen of my gtk-using packages because of
gconv-modules. This when I uses dist-upgrade. But -- if I do apt-get
install locales, then apt-get dist-upgrade, it works fine. So why
can't apt do this itself?
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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